Description
- Job Description:
- 1 vacancy
- Languages: English
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- Work site environment:
- At heights
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Outdoors
- Work setting
- Commercial
- Residential
- Rural area
- Responsibilities:
- Tasks
- Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Supervise other workers
- Apply successive coats of compound and sand seams and joints
- Apply, level and smooth coats of plaster
- Clean and prepare surfaces
- Cut and install metal corner beads to protect exterior corners
- Fabricate and install suspended metal ceiling grids and place in panels to form acoustical and coffered ceilings
- Fill joints, nail indentations, holes and cracks with joint compound using trowel and broad knife
- Finish corners and angles and create decorative designs in finish coat, if required
- Measure, cut, fit and install drywall sheets
- Mix plaster ingredients to desired consistency
- Mould and install ornamental plaster panels, cornices and trim
- Spray acoustic or texture materials over walls and ceilings
- Tape over joints using taping machine and embed tape in compound
- Cut openings in lath for heating and ventilation piping, ducts and electrical outlets
- Install acoustic tile, hangers for suspended ceilings and metal studs for composition wallboard or lath
- Install corner beads and wire mesh around beams to which plaster is to be applied
- Install exterior and interior steel studs
- Install metal stud framing and furring for interior drywall or plaster walls and ceilings, using hand and power tools
- Prepare wall and ceiling layouts
- Supervision: 3-4 people
- Additional information:
- Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Physically demanding
- Repetitive tasks
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Tight deadlines
- Walking
- Work under pressure
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- Own tools/equipment
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Benefits: Free parking available
- Required languages: English
- Education level: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Qualifications
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Hand-eye co-ordination